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~M~
Board Administrator
Username: mjm

Post Number: 10106
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 9:30 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Dearest Membership -- for those who are not yet aware, we were indeed hacked again early this a.m. All profiles were affected this time, but we have restored them. Please attempt to post and check to make sure your membership is working properly. If it is not, post a note in this thread or write to us at adminwpf@wildpoetryforum.com. If you were approved this past weekend, your profile has been lost and cannot be restored. Please contact us and we will work with you to re-create your profile.

A few poems may also have been lost. If you find your work has been deleted, please re-post it.

At this point, we feel that we have restabilized Wild and she is back on course. However, don't be surprised if there are still a few bumps here and there.

Since this hacking has occurred three times, each time at approximately 1:00 a.m. on Monday morning of each week, we suspect that the hacking is due to a virus profile (robot) rather than an individual person(s). Though even robots have people behind their design, the hacking may not be personal or targeted solely at Wild. We have talked to our server host about this and will be in contact with them again.

steve and I will be leaving in a few hours to run on up to Seattle to attend Teresa White's book release party. We will be returning sometime tomorrow. We will be taking the laptop with us and will try to respond to any other problems as quickly as we can. However, please be patient if you must wait a few hours for a response from us.

We will keep you updated as we learn more information about this. Please know that we are doing everything possible to ensure that this hacking is stopped and that Wild goes back to a relatively sane environment that you can depend on. Wait a minute -- sane? Let's just admit Wild will probably never be sane, but it would be good if she was at least dependably there sporting that lampshade on her head.

Love,
M & s
Fred Longworth
New member
Username: sandiegopoet

Post Number: 2
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 9:38 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

It is after all the Wild Poetry Forum.

What a drag to be a member of the Tame Poetry Forum.

Have fun in Seattle.

Fred
K L Monahan
New member
Username: klhmonahan

Post Number: 1
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 10:01 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

hmmm, some things are missing in the profile-- but hey! I'm just glad I'm not bored and SO without a life that I need to play (ooo ahh)Poetry Forum Hacker!! duh duh duh

hah -- What a L O S E R!

Hope everyone is great.

((((((((((hugs))))))))))))
K
K L Monahan
New member
Username: klhmonahan

Post Number: 2
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 10:02 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

And (lol) say hello to me---

It's always good to be "new" at something.

((((((smile)))))))))
steve williams
Board Administrator
Username: twobyfour

Post Number: 1436
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 10:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

hi karen

i just fixed your user status and no. of posts.

:-)

s
Emusing
Senior Member
Username: emusing

Post Number: 4216
Registered: 08-2003
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 10:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I don't know how you did it, but I look perfect. I feel perfect. Thanks for the boob job.

Have fun in Seattle and give warm hugs to Teresa from all of us.

Sorry you had to deal with this mess.

xo
E
Word Walker Press

K L Monahan
Advanced Member
Username: klhmonahan

Post Number: 1301
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 11:36 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Hey! I want a boob job.

didn't know I had to ask.

Thanks steve

((((((((smile)))))))))))
Jeffrey S. Lange
Intermediate Member
Username: runatyr

Post Number: 556
Registered: 10-2005
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 11:37 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Just posting to have a look at myself here... hmmm...

and btw, many thanks for the anti-hack work. ;)

Edit: My profile seems to be unaffected. :-)

(Message edited by Runatyr on April 02, 2007)
"I had a lover's quarrel with the world." ~Robert Frost
Zephyr
Senior Member
Username: zephyr

Post Number: 6130
Registered: 07-2003
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 1:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Congratulate Teresa for me, enloy the party and have fun.
Michelle Petit-Sumrall
Moderator
Username: jaguwar

Post Number: 48
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 3:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Man, this bites! Glad we're back up and running, though. I hate to see my baby attacked this way. :-( I thought she was all grown up and safe. At least she's got the best virtual guardians on the planet! :-)

Love,

Michelle (Jag)
P.S. My profile is fine, too.
Dale McLain
New member
Username: sparklingseas

Post Number: 1
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 4:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Oh, the fun never ends, huh? Sorry you are having to dig us out again Steve. My stats and profile are missing, but it's not so bad to have a clean slate.
Have fun tonight!!
hugs~dale
Vienna
Intermediate Member
Username: vienna

Post Number: 624
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 4:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Jag my dear, so lovely to hear your big cat purr again.
Thanks for the link to your blog too, cool.
Hope all is well in Jaguwarworld....this to shall pass and all that :-)

Lots of love

v xxxxxxxxx
'It's incidental, not integral; if you know what I mean' ~ Maude
M. Kathryn Black
Senior Member
Username: kathryn

Post Number: 3553
Registered: 09-2002
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 4:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Have fun in Seattle or i hope you had fun in Seattle. Now I'll try CV with my fingers crossed.
Best, Kathryn
I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding...
-Mary Oliver
Jim Doss
New member
Username: jimdoss

Post Number: 2
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 5:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Steve,

When you get a chance would you mind fixing my id.

Thanks,

Jim
Fred Longworth
Advanced Member
Username: sandiegopoet

Post Number: 1313
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 6:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Yes, reboot the DOSS!

Fred
"A-Bear"
Senior Member
Username: dane

Post Number: 1986
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 8:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

M -say hello to Jonathan when you get there. I'm sure he'll be happy to hear from you. *smile* Thanks for the return of my profile. Much appreciated.

D
Fred Longworth
Advanced Member
Username: sandiegopoet

Post Number: 1321
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 2:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Now "Naturopathy" and "Hypnotic Suggestions" are appearing at the top of the topics page, as well as at the bottom.

Very strange and very hackish.

Fred
Frances
Advanced Member
Username: ffyredrop

Post Number: 667
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 2:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

oh my post poof this morn- shall this?
Frances
Advanced Member
Username: ffyredrop

Post Number: 668
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 2:48 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

good- but I couldn't post in create few minutes ago....
wel` good!
Frances
Advanced Member
Username: ffyredrop

Post Number: 672
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 2:54 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

can't posr comment to Kat Black- but everywhere else so far?
Jana Bouma
Valued Member
Username: violamama

Post Number: 233
Registered: 06-2006
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 5:51 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Through the looking glass again this morning. I got this friendly message when I tried to edit my profile:

Open[r] file error


File [10521-tree.txt] has zero length in reading for [read_tree]!

Please contact Admin & Moderators if this problem persists.


I think the borogaves got loose again.
Jana
Bren
Senior Member
Username: bren

Post Number: 1959
Registered: 12-2001
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 5:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

My profile appears when I click on it but I get the same message Jana has gotten when I try to post anywhere.

I'm so sorry this is happening here, what a mess!
Christopher T George
New member
Username: chrisgeorge

Post Number: 2
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 5:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Hi M

Very sorry to see you appear to be continuing to experience the hacker problems. :-(

I wonder if it might be time to look into new software such as vBulletin® which a lot sites appear to be using these days?

Chris
KA
Advanced Member
Username: kerryann

Post Number: 154
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 6:37 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Did the forum subjects get rearranged, or is it just me? I thought Essential Oils was the second one and it took me a second to find it.
K L Monahan
Advanced Member
Username: klhmonahan

Post Number: 1302
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 7:06 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

cheese and crackers. This must be a headache. sorry steve and m-- hope you guys can figure out a solution to this problem. I think I'll wait 'til the hacker gets a life before I redo my profile.

(sigh)
Karen
Zephyr
Senior Member
Username: zephyr

Post Number: 6135
Registered: 07-2003
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 7:15 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

M see Lauras poem on cv all gobble de gook like Viennas was yesterday. Hacker again.
Lazarus
Senior Member
Username: lazarus

Post Number: 3034
Registered: 10-2005
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 7:16 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

You are probably working on this but there is something wrong with the post Beached in CV.
"When I sense an electrical charge around a person, event, or place I know there's a poem in it" ~ Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
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LJ Cohen
Moderator
Username: ljc

Post Number: 6542
Registered: 07-2002
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 7:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Unfortunately there's not a lot I can do from my end about this--M and Steve need to investigate this on their end. My speculation is that there is some piece of malicious code that got inserted in our message board scripting and it keeps mucking up the works.

It's probably not 'personal' to Wild, but an opportunistic virus.

And given that M and Steve live on the US west coast, they're still probably sleeping. :-)

Please be patient and we'll try to get to the bottom of this all.

best,
ljc
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Bren
Senior Member
Username: bren

Post Number: 1961
Registered: 12-2001
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 7:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

My speculation is that there is some piece of malicious code that got inserted in our message board scripting and it keeps mucking up the works.

I know you're right Lisa after clicking on Laura's post from this AM. It's an ad for different things, (reads like a newspaper)Somewhere in that code is the answer I'll bet. Steve may be able to turn it around if he can find the right code. I hope so anyway but it will take time.
Laura Polley
Member
Username: lpolley

Post Number: 56
Registered: 06-2006
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 10:14 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I have reposted the Beached poem. I sure hope this wasn't somehow triggered by my post..it was made at around 2 a.m. last night (Monday), which I just realized is the "witching hour" for this hacker/spambot. I will not post at that time of week again!
penny
Senior Member
Username: funnyoldlady

Post Number: 3395
Registered: 06-2006
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 7:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Hi again guys - tonight I keep getting the "restricted" notice when I try to post. It happened in CV and also when I tried to use the smilies.
Weird. I'm sorry to bother you again...
Thanks~~
penny (-:=
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain.

steve williams
Board Administrator
Username: twobyfour

Post Number: 1441
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 9:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Hi penny

should work now, i was experimenting with locking the web site down and requiring a password, but it didn't work the way i wanted it to.

s